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Windows 7: Hide Windows Action Centre icon in System Tray when no problems?

How can I do this? When I rightclick the taskbar and choose notification area > customise, I have the "always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar" ticked (I much prefer this) but this stops be being able to choose "Only show notifications" for Action Centre (yet I can for other programs). How can I fix this? Thanks

Hide Windows Action Centre icon in System Tray when no problems?

Hide the hidden icons from the system trayThere is one or two programs I want running on the background which I don't want appearing on the system tray. However, the little triangle pop out menu where they hide is even more frustrating.
http://i.imgur.com/K3zOkrT.png
Is there any way to remove it(without the hidden programs inside it...

Customization

Action Center icon takes too long to appear in system trayHello,
I have a windows 7 home premium pre installed notebook computer. All most all third party start up apps are loading faster, but action center icon takes 3-4 minutes to show up in the notification area. This is really annoying.
I tried changing "Security Center" service's start up type to...

General Discussion

How to hide an application icon from the System Tray?Hi. See attached screen clip. I am trying to hide and remove the last icon closest to the clock (Ring Central Call Controller) from the system tray when the Application is running. The program itself doesn't offer that option.
Is there a way to remove it using a 3rd party program or registry...

Software

Windows Update icon no longer in system trayYesterday I installed about 18 updates. Also hid a few. Now the Windows Update icon is not appearing in my system tray even though there are still updates to install (and my MSE definitions updates definitely are new today).
Nothing changed on my system. I even unhid the updates I hid but still...

Windows Updates & Activation

Windows 7 Icon Problems +Action CenterI just upgraded to Windows 7 (not a clean install) and I noticed a couple of problems that I'm hoping someone could shed some light on.
First of all, all of the default icons in Libraries are just plain folders, with the exception of the icon that has a blue picture in front of a document (the...

General Discussion

The old 'i'll hide your tray icon' ployAnyone else noted that the tray icons come and go, no matter how you define them in the Customize panel?
Mostly when restoring a window and then minimizing it to tray again.
A Show Icon and notifications becomes a Only notifications again.